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EU orders more Canadairs to boost aerial firefighting fleet as southern nations fight wildfires
  • Not that it's a competition, but we have 1.2 million hectares burned in British Columbia this year, vs. the 180 thousand for all of EU. I just found the scale remarkable. We just have so much less dense population in BC that the number of people affected in the EU is drastically different. Stay safe everyone.

  • This man bought 2 Flair tickets to Florida but the flight didn't exist
  • This happened to my friends. They bought tickets, the flight got cancelled, they never got informed, they continued to get regular flight reminders, including a week before the "flight" and a reminder the night before to check in. They chose not to check in online, went to the airport, and were told at the check in desk that the flight didn't exist. Not just the flight, the route. The route they were flying no longer existed, and they still got notifications. Ridiculous.

    Oh, and the kicker... they got emails afterwards asking them to rate the flight!

  • Poilievre calls Niagara Falls home 'tiny little shack,' apologizes to tenant
  • PP trying to frame income/property-value disparity as a purely Canadian problem that has only happened under Trudeau is just pure fallacy. It's happening in countries all over the world and it has been growing under every government in Canada for decades.

  • Appreciation Thread
  • The confirmation on exit (back button when on the main screen) is why I stayed with this instead of the other apps I've tried!

    But agreed, having something like that as an option makes sense.

  • Canada recruits high-skilled foreigners in US – and gets 10,000 applications
  • Canada in general made me happier. Not necessarily the companies specifically. As much as we can complain about our health care issue here in Canada, the social safety net here is significantly better. And I had "good" insurance coverage in the states. It was a constant fear of getting sick or injured and ending up in the wrong hospital and not getting covered (or any number of other reasons). Add to that the social pressure to spend money on everything in the states. Everyone I knew down there was in debt up to their eyeballs, no matter how much they made. It was ridiculous.

  • Canada recruits high-skilled foreigners in US – and gets 10,000 applications
  • I understand where you're coming from, but we're taking about having a really high paying job in the US or a high paying job in Canada. The types of jobs getting H1-B visas are high paying tech jobs.

    Things are also more expensive than you might think in the US. And there always seems to be a lot of social pressure to spend more money in the US - more so than Canada in my experience. So in a lot of ways, you could be better off in some places even if you have a lower paying job.

  • Canada recruits high-skilled foreigners in US – and gets 10,000 applications
  • Yes, but, money isn't everything. I once left a high paying job in the US to come back to Canada, get paid less, and be way happier.

    Working for a US company and living in Canada is a good way to go, but is harder to swing if you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

    Plus it sounds like the people they're talking about in this scenario may have their H1-B revoked and they wouldn't have a job or a visa to stay in the US at all. Canada, even with a lower paying job seems like a good option.

  • 100K Users - Revolt
  • I don't know how, but Lemmy is the least confusing to use application within the Fediverse.

    I've only used Lemmy and this is a scary thought.

    I know some people don't want it anyway, but if there is ever going to be a mass exodus from the corporations to the fediverse, fediverse needs to seriously work on the sign up process. And can't threaten defederation every 5 minutes, which probably means they need proper modding tools/features.

  • The US solar market is projected to triple in size by 2028
    electrek.co The US solar market is projected to triple in size by 2028

    Due in part to strong Q1 2023 numbers and a demand surge, the US solar market is now expected to triple by 2028, according to a new report.

    The US solar market is projected to triple in size by 2028
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    How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
    theconversation.com How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions

    Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.

    How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
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    Just finished Death Stranding, such an interesting and unique experience.
  • I think 3 hours in I had only "played" for about 30 minutes, and to me, most of the story at that point was just trying to be as ridiculous and disturbing as it possibly could. Most of the gameplay was just avoiding falling cause dude doesn't know how to walk. I had to go do something else at that point so I quit and never ended up coming back to it.

    Maybe if I hadn't gotten it free I might have given it more of a chance, but I definitely wasn't a fan.

  • New weather satellite reveals spectacular images of Earth
    www.esa.int New weather satellite reveals spectacular images of Earth

    Europe’s latest weather satellite, the Meteosat Third Generation Imager, has just delivered its first view of Earth – revealing conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic in remarkable detail.   

    New weather satellite reveals spectacular images of Earth
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